necessary hi there the way this you re also beginning to see a greater european debate about taking matters into their own hands, not being as dependentin the united states and particular will to china lengsly saying we have to navigate without such a close atlantic relationship. that s the sense of history now, that the atlantic era of history is essentially consigned to history. we re not quite sure what comes next but something different is coming. and, mika, of course that is the worst case scenario. it is remarkable, though, how much you see change when administrations change. remember during the gulf war and gerhard schroeder and chirac,
you re right absolutely all had his own ego attacks that he actually had to go back on and chirac whenever he was president he tried to reform retirement policies and his prime minister at the time now and you they actually had to resign in the face of protests this time macro has actually he s pushed forward a lot of his reforms he was the major later reforms last year in the face of public backlash to this and this is the first policy that he s actually cancelled and that he s gone back on right now i mean there s a lot of people saying you know he s done for i wonder is it too early to write him off well this is certainly the biggest political crisis that he stay since he took the president a lot this eighteen months ago and as i said he s face public pushback with almost every one of his major policies that is pushed through this political crisis will certainly determine the rest of his presidency and finally in conclusion in terms
a lot of digital aspects that did not exist at the time but other than that other than the concessions that it made for some of the dairy industries and the automotive industry for the united states it essentially is still a free trade agreement between canada mexico and the united states maybe that is a sort of relief for people participating at the g twenty summit as it is a multilateral agreement and a commitment to free trade by those three countries but you have to put things in perspective and take a look at all the damage that the uncertainty during these years has actually caused when donald trump was essentially suggesting that it would end nafta at all and have no free trade agreement with its two neighboring countries companies stopped investing companies could not plan companies fired people and that was definitely more damage perhaps than the good that this new deal brings in. you re think you will drop has one trade deal done there s an even larger one looming with china
chirac in 2002-2003. you can go back to de galle, in 68, 69, deciding he wanted to be neutral in nato. militarily. the french have been a problem. but it s hard not to look at this, this new leader in france, and not say what you ve suggested that france may be moving towards a position at the center of europe. and may be one of our most critical allies. i think that macron and his success in washington this week is a little sign of the realignment of europe. we may see a little bit more of that. when chancellor merkel, german leader, comes at the end of the week. france traditionally over the last 20 years, more has had this kind of distance towards the united states. we re your friends, but we re going to insist on our culture,
and they know, they know this is about donald trump. they know it s about an election he lost by votes. they have been through a lot of things that happened to united states of america before. think about 2003 and 2004. it wasn t as pad as it was when chirac was taking money from the iraquis and then his foreign minister would go to the united states and undercut us. that was the low point. we survived that. what about schroeder. we survived that. i m thinking this is worse and you re wrong. thank you. thank you very much. i m with mika. just ahead this morning i m just saying we re resilient. we will survive. it will be ugly and there will be a lot of damage. would somebody queue up lee greenwood. steve kornacki, new york times peter baker will join us. (work sfx)